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Free Horror Movies To Download Legally This Halloween

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Thanks to the public domain, Creative Commons and free distribution, there are lots of horror movies that can be downloaded and watched legally this Halloween.

Here is a short collection, all either obtainable from services like VODO, The Pirate Bay or Public Domain Torrents.

For those who prefer to watch via their web browser, YouTube has a selection of free horror movies here.

Night of the Living Dead

The plot of the film follows Ben Huss (Duane Jones), Barbra (Judith O’Dea), and five others trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania while the house is attacked by reanimated corpses, commonly known as ‘ghouls’ or ‘zombies’. Night of the Living Dead is the origin of six other Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero. (IMDb)
Download from Public Domain Torrents here.

The Tunnel

In 2007 the New South Wales government suddenly scrapped a plan to utilise the water in the disused underground train tunnels beneath Sydney. In 2008, chasing rumours of a government cover-up and urban legends surrounding the sudden backflip, investigative journalist Natasha Warner led a crew of four into the underground labyrinth. They went down into the tunnels looking for a story – until the story found them. (IMDb)
Download from VODO here.

The Little Shop of Horrors

Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. Directed by Roger Corman, the film was the basis for the later hit stage musical.
Download from Public Domain Torrents here.

Driller Killer

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill. (IMDb)
Download from The Pirate Bay here, or Public Domain Torrents here

The Phantom of the Opera

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. (IMDb)
Download from The Pirate Bay here, or Public Domain Torrents here

Other viewing

To see the full range of Public Domain Torrents’ free and legal horror movies, click here.
The Internet Archive also has a horror/sci-fi section, as does Open Culture.

Her most intricate Halloween outfit yet? Heidi Klum goes all out as she's wheeled in to annual party on an autopsy table

By Sarah Bull
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Her annual Halloween party is undoubtedly the most highly-anticipated of the spooky holiday, with celebrities going all out to try and outdo the host.
But there was no chance of anyone upstaging Heidi Klum at her party last night.
The 38-year-old model was wheeled in to the event on an autopsy table by two blood-spattered doctors.

Her most intricate Halloween outfit yet? Heidi Klum went all out for her annual party, and was wheeled in to the TAO nightclub on an autopsy table by two blood-spattered doctors

And when they lifted the sheet, Klum's outfit could be seen in its entirety, with the intricacies of the costume clear to see.

Project Runway host Klum decided to dress up as a dead body for the event, and spent the majority of the day being airbrushed with make-up to ensure her appearance was as realistic as possible.

Talking about the outfit, Klum said:
'It’s kind of like a dead body with the first layer of skin ripped off.  It’s basically like me naked.

Leaving nothing to the imagination: Heidi's 'dead body' costume showed the body with the first layer of skin ripped off

Next to nothing: Heidi was actually wearing very little, but said she didn't feel naked because it is so colourful

She's all muscle: Heidi's unique costume offers an inside look of the human anatomy

Life of the party: Heidi stands out from the crowd as she mingles with her guests

Get your drink on: Heidi enjoys a cold one as she checks out the action on the nearby dance floor

Smile: A party attendee snaps a picture of Heidi on the dance floor

'All my veins and blood will all be visible… You don’t feel quite naked with it because it is so colourful!'

Klum teamed her extraordinary outfit with a pair of sky-high black heels, and impressively realistic rotten teeth.

The German supermodel had been keeping her fans updated on the progress of her outfit throughout the day, posting pictures of each stage on Twitter.

Preparations: Heidi kept fans updated on the progress of the costume by posting shots of the stages on Twitter

Getting there: Heidi posted a shot which showed the 'road map' of the make-up, before sharing one which showed her having the make-up applied by airbrushing it on

Finishing touches: Heidi completed the astonishingly realistic outfit with a pair of rotten teeth

From having the skull cap applied, to showing the basic 'road map' of the dead body design on her face, to finally showing off the airbrushed make-up before heading to the event, there is no doubt that Klum's outfit is the most intricate and
time-consuming of the occasion.

Klum is no stranger to dressing up for Halloween, going bigger and better every year.
However, she has also previously caused controversy with some of her outfits, with her 2008 costume of the Goddess Kali sparking outrage from Hindu leaders who demanded an apology.

Kitty cat: 2007 was the last year that saw Heidi sex up her costume, husband Seal was a Frankenstein character

Controversial: Klum's decision to dress up as Hindu goddess Kali in 2008 wasn't received well by members of the religion

'I loved my costume and I love Halloween,' Klum said at the time.
'I mean that is one of my most favorite times of the year. I've done so many different things. This was probably my tenth time and I've done so many people like Betty Boop and Lady Godiva and it’s always a take on someone. You’re not that person.'
In 2009, Heidi and husband Seal dressed up as birds of a feather, but Klum said the outfits were difficult to cope with.

She said: 'It was bad. My husband was driving and he could hardly see anything...
When you have a beak on, you can't talk to anyone, you can't really
drink. It's not a good costume!'

Something to crow about: Heidi and Seal were birds of a feather in 2009

Transform her: Last year Heidi and Seal upped the ante by becoming Transformers, complete with hydraulic crane shoes in Heidi's case 

Kitty overload: Real Houswives Of New York star Bettheny Frankel dressed head-to-toes in Hello Kitty attire for the occasion

5 Halloween Parties Too Badass to Be Real (That Totally Are)

By: Jacopo della Quercia 

From: Cracked.com 

Let's face it, Halloween will never be as cool as it was when you were a kid. Yes, as an adult you get the joy of slutty costumes and spending the evening drunk, but it's just not the same. Haunted houses aren't scary, costumes are lame and the parties are just cardboard decorations and people weeping quietly (your experiences there may vary).
Well, it turns out you just need to know where to go. There are some places where the true spirit of Halloween lives on in grand fashion ...

#5. Eastern State Penitentiary's Badass Haunted House

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First, let's talk about the Halloween staple, the haunted house. Unless you're 12, you probably can't remember the last time you were actually scared at one of these. Sure, you might have been startled at one, when the guy with the hockey mask and toy chainsaw jumped out at you. But not scared. You're far too old and jaded to ever go running home to mommy because of some big building with cheesy horror decorations taped to the walls.
Now allow Pennsylvania to prove you wrong with Terror Behind the Walls. It's a Halloween attraction (talk about stretching a term) set in Eastern State Penitentiary, a goddamn bona fide haunted prison complex.

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Once you enter, you can never leave (except through the gift shop).

Built in 1829, the ESP had a reputation as a pretty nightmarish place when it was operational -- a visiting Charles Dickens described it as "worse than any torture of the body."

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"Although a lot of that is just Philadelphia."

And the people who ran the place were as insane as the environment -- they happily imprisoned and messed up prisoners as young as 12 and even goddamn dogs. Combine that with some fairly creative torture methods, such as "the mad chair," and it should come as no surprise that reports of paranormal activity on the site have been pretty abundant. And now, every Halloween, the long-closed penitentiary opens its doors to allow the public to revel in its arrested decay.

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They've even kept some of the prisoners around on a steady diet of man flesh.

This, by the way, means the building is as abandoned as Chernobyl and about as well preserved, so it might be a good idea to make sure your Halloween costume includes a hard hat.

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And maybe a dental dam.

The Terror Behind the Walls event is a "low gore" walk through the pants-shitting premises, with plenty of actual gory historical facts mixed with balls-out-insane ghost stories to go with the top-notch production values. It all adds up to the scariest Halloween event in America.

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An honor taken last year by that terrible Rocky Horror episode of Glee.

Yeah, if you think you're too cool to be scared by masked actors chasing after you, you need to experience it happening while you're walking through the crumbling real-life equivalent of Arkham Asylum.
A haunted one.

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This is why Batman has Robin -- bait.

And while we're on the subject of haunted houses ...

#4. Steampunk Haunted House: Through the Looking Glass

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If you don't have a "clearly really haunted" prison to turn into a haunted house, you can still present a pretty kickass experience. All it takes is a high production value and a little style. For instance, there's the Steampunk Haunted House in New York.

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Behold Hipsterween.

It has so many advantages over its "fake blood and plastic skeletons" peers that it's almost unfair. First off, it's steampunk themed, which is creepy all by itself. Second, it's based on Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the freakier sequel to the already pretty deranged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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We're not sure what the label on her cupcake said, but we're not touching it.

And trust us, that unholy combination works. Until NASA finds a way to actually enter Wonderland through a steampunk Stargate, Third Rail Projects' Steampunk Haunted House: Through the Looking Glass remains as close as you'll come to Looking-Glass Land this side of American McGee's Alice. Third Rail's take on the Ye Olde Haunted House routine is basically a straight-up steampunk museum in a century-old playhouse decked out in a Wonderland theme. It focuses on only the darker themes of Carroll's work, and also all your favorite Alice characters and settings now look like this:

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This is far more accurate than the Disney version ever was.

And while you do have a tour guide, his main function is, in true Carroll fashion, to deliberately get you lost, give you impossible tasks and turn off the lights just when you need them.

Adding to the insanity cake mix is the fact that the whole building is as deliberately nonsensical as New York housing law will allow. In short: Picture dropping acid before watching the animated Alice in Wonderland, and you'll have a fraction of an idea what you're in for.

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Taking acid before visiting the Steampunk Haunted House ends with either the morgue or a bestselling children's novel.

#3. Halloween at the House on the Rock

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So as you can see, the best Halloween hangouts are the kind of places that are terrifying year-round. Which brings us to House on the Rock, aka The Most Insane Place in America.

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We're pretty sure we've spotted at least 14 things here that will rip you to shreds.

Architect Alex Jordan Sr. and his son Alex Jordan Jr. started building House on the Rock as a way to get back at Frank Lloyd Wright, who thought Jordan Sr. was a hack and kicked him out of his art school. We can tell Senior took this a bit personally, because he immediately started planning and building the most mind-bending house his peculiar architectural style could come up with -- in the vicinity of Wright's own house in Wisconsin. Then, the son turned the house's rooms into loosely themed crap exhibitions and proceeded to live his life in seclusion like a poor man's Howard Hughes.

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In terms of taint-curling horror and giant sea monsters, he was as rich as creosote.

Every single inch of the House on the Rock is a horror movie waiting to happen. Let's begin with the Infinity Room, which juts out 218 feet for no other reason than to mess with your head.

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Well this just seems infinitely unscary.

The terrifying part is that the room is quite high from the ground and has no supports underneath. Here's the outside:

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GAH!

When you enter the Infinity Room, you're essentially walking a 200-foot long plank, hoping against hope that Jordan Sr. (who, remember, was laughed out of the profession by one of the most influential architects in history) had his shit together.
Speaking of which, let's take a look at the other rooms. The house features several "exhibitions," with all exhibits out in the open and contributing to the peculiar smell of rot that permeates the building. One room gives us what is allegedly the world's largest indoor carousel.

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Or at least the largest possessed carousel.

Another features a frozen orchestra of mannequins.

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No music. Just a steady stream of muffled coughs and far-off screams.

There's a circus room ...

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... a room full of organs ...

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All completely unplayable by the hands of man.

... an indoor old-timey street that brings to mind the Rapture ...

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"Those hats belong to the previous occupants. They left rather suddenly."

... and another orchestra, only these are controlled by invisible robots, because everything is better with robots.

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Ghosts, too.

Wow. That's just ... wow. It's as if they've taken everything even remotely sinister in life and put them under the same roof to bear upon the wary visitor.
And then there's the Halloween parties. Last year, for instance, the House on the Rock hosted a costume contest (judged by Neil Gaiman), and the winners got to ride that enormous carousel. Although, as evidenced by their disclaimer on Facebook, this is not necessarily a reward -- the riders are specifically told not to bring "open flames, weapons, smoke and sharp projections" and that "as the carousel was not meant to be ridden, there are sharp claws, fragile appendages, etc."
So, it's a carousel with sharp claws that was not meant to be ridden, and you're specifically told not to take weapons with you? There is no way you're getting out with your soul intact.

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Or your lunch.

#2. The White House Halloween Party

Remember when we said you can arrange a kickass party literally anywhere? We weren't kidding. This is what you get at a White House costume party:

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Surrealism and massive balls.

While you may not immediately think of the White House for your list of "best party places in the world," people tend to forget that it is one of the best-equipped places for most occasions -- up to and including getting wild. In 1975, Gerald Ford's daughter, Susan, held her high school's senior prom there, and for good reason: the White House has everything anybody would need for the best freaking party ever. It features a movie theater, a ballroom, plenty of bedrooms, its own bowling alley, a basketball court and a swimming pool ... hell, there's even a hot tub.
What's more, as you can see above, the festivities are now hosted by a President of the United States who is an unabashed Star Wars and comic book nerd. This translates to the exact thing you'd hope for and expect:

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That's a fantastic President of the United States costume.

Hey, look at this! It's somebody dressed up as Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter:

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Hang on ...

Yeah, that person would be Johnny Depp. Also at the party in 2009 was Tim Burton and Deep Roy (the guy who played all of the Oompa Loompas in the Willy Wonka remake).

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Sasha looks adorably terrifying.

See, this is why you want to grow up to be president, kids. You get to use your status as the most powerful man in the world to have R2-D2 stare down an Ent.

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"Could have used you on Endor, beep beep."

#1. The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor

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As you leave the trick-or-treating stage of your life behind and enter the beer-and-wacky-dick-costumes phase of Halloween celebrating, you tend to be less about the candy and more about the partying. Woe is you, however, when you find out that Halloween parties tend to be pretty much the same as your regular Friday nights, only everyone wears even dumber clothes than usual and there are little plastic bats everywhere.
Yet with the right mindset (and some cash to burn), you can arrange a kickass Halloween at the Queen Mary at Long Beach, California.

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That's the one where they refuse to let out Cabin B340 because of the murdered little girl living there.

It's your average retired ocean liner that's been converted into a hotel/museum. And while that might seem more or less like the trifecta of lameness to most, the owners of the Queen Mary took a double take on their property and realized that what they had was a creepy-ass giant ship (that looks a bit like the Titanic for good measure) that is also a creepy-ass hotel.

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Using a corpse as a mattress? Eh, we've done worse.

So they have taken to annually converting the Queen Mary into a giant Halloween complex for an event called the Dark Harbor. The end result is the lovechild of The Shining's Overlook Hotel and a giant ghost ship and HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!

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He's there to take your bags, don't be rude.

Yeah. The Halloween-ready ship features, among other things, three onboard and two onshore mazes, some 160 monsters, all the special effects you can eat and some big ass pyrotechnics.

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It's not a holiday without pillars of fire.

The horror action that takes place in and around the "damned" ship -- which, as they helpfully remind you during the event, is rumored to be haunted in real life as well -- follows a different script every year. This year's story revolves around a trio of she-demons who make it their mission to hunt the shit out of everyone entering the boat after sunset -- up to, including and especially you.

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The service is impeccable in that respect.

Oh, hell yeah. This is the kind of haunted house you get when the people setting it up have some serious money behind it.

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We hope they also have some serious firepower.

And in case you still think this is kid stuff, please note that there will be boobs there (video NSFW).
Happy Halloween, indeed.

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Sleep tight.

For more Halloween fun for the whole family, Jacopo asks that you pick up a copy of Little Goblins Ten, a cute little children's book by the very same Pamela Jane that Jacopo is currently writing a Cracked-inspired children's book with.